I think I DNFed this one the last time I was here on the island. Today I made the find . . . maybe it was better equipment . . . or maybe it was time and experience.

I did have a rather unusual thing happen however . . . I was walking down the trail when I spied a couple that were locked in a rather amourous looking embrace with one on top of the other doing what had to be . . . well an act just one step away from being illegal (at least illegal in public). From what I could see the couple still had their clothes on (trust me I didn't look too closely), but I opted to be a little discrete and took off for the cache by going cross country in "bush whacking" style.

I found the cache and then realized that the couple were still pre-occupied so I opted to return to my car in an even more direct (read more bush whacking) approach. I think this resulted in me crashing my way through the woods. I am sure to anyone from a mile and a half around it sounded as though there was a herd of elephants in the woods -- or at the very least a drunken Bigfoot.

In any case, after crashing and smashing my way through the wood-choked undergrowth I emerged back at my car in the lower parking lot and was jotting down my experiences at this cache when I saw the little black car that I assumed the couple had come in since it was in the upper parking lot come flying by me at breakneck speed . . . I figured they either thought that there was a Peeping Tom Convention on the Island or that the legend of the Campobello Island Yeti were true and were leaving as fast as they could!

Anyways . . . T: Nothing, L: Bouncy ball (appropriate, no?)

:)

As always, thanks for the experience.

attroll

05-27-2008, 01:11 PM

Sure Jake, did you get any pictures to prove this story?

Hiram357

05-27-2008, 03:38 PM

I think I'm on Rick's side for this one, we need some pics to prove the story... then we'll decide if you're a perv or not... :p:p:rolleyes::rolleyes::D

heh... how is it that you always find youself in the most embarassing situations while caching??

firefighterjake

05-27-2008, 03:41 PM

Sure Jake, did you get any pictures to prove this story?

Pics of the amourous couple or of me running through the wood with that classic blurry Bigfoot type photo? ;):D

firefighterjake

05-27-2008, 03:42 PM

I think I'm on Rick's side for this one, we need some pics to prove the story... then we'll decide if you're a perv or not... :p:p:rolleyes::rolleyes::D

heh... how is it that you always find youself in the most embarassing situations while caching??

speakin of certain caches, when are ya pickin me up to go drive up to parmachenees new cache on mt waldo???? :rolleyes:

Opalsns

05-27-2008, 04:40 PM

Let Me Know when your coming to CANAAN and I'll set up a couple of maniquins and a Large teddybear , then you can get a picture to prove both!!!!!

firefighterjake

05-28-2008, 12:53 PM

speakin of certain caches, when are ya pickin me up to go drive up to parmachenees new cache on mt waldo???? :rolleyes:

I'm thinking that sometime in June . . . maybe towards the latter part of it . . . we should hook up and go north to the County for some caching and camping . . . and knock off a few more of the maps that we both need to nab . . . maybe on the way up we could swing by this one and you could convince me to drive up the mountain (although I have to tell you I'm not sure I have the cajones to go up this one.) :o

Sudonim

05-28-2008, 01:01 PM

When I placed my cache on Mt. Waldo, I drove the Subaru 1/3/ of the way up the ledge. Decided I was being really rough on the clutch and turned around (not fun, steep angle sideways!).
If I can get the Subaru that far up, you guys with real 4x4s shouldn't have any trouble ;)

firefighterjake

05-28-2008, 01:10 PM

When I placed my cache on Mt. Waldo, I drove the Subaru 1/3/ of the way up the ledge. Decided I was being really rough on the clutch and turned around (not fun, steep angle sideways!).
If I can get the Subaru that far up, you guys with real 4x4s shouldn't have any trouble ;)

Sure Andy . . . shame me into it.

Honestly I have no doubt that the 4Runner is capable of it . . . it really is a SUV that is meant to go off-road . . . it's just mind over matter . . . and my mind isn't accustomed to those steep angles and I keep envisioning myself rolling the vehicle and then having to call up my wife to explain that I totaled the $24,000 vehicle while going up a mountainside to find a $1 McHappy Meal toy.

I supposed I could always let Hiram take the steering wheel since his alter ego is DareDevil . . . the geocacher without fear (and commonsense:D). However, after reading of his adventures on Harris Mountain a few years back with the dearly departed Jeep I'm not so sure that would be a good idea either! ;):D

Hiram357

05-28-2008, 02:51 PM

Sure Andy . . . shame me into it.

Honestly I have no doubt that the 4Runner is capable of it . . . it really is a SUV that is meant to go off-road . . . it's just mind over matter . . . and my mind isn't accustomed to those steep angles and I keep envisioning myself rolling the vehicle and then having to call up my wife to explain that I totaled the $24,000 vehicle while going up a mountainside to find a $1 McHappy Meal toy.

I supposed I could always let Hiram take the steering wheel since his alter ego is DareDevil . . . the geocacher without fear (and commonsense:D). However, after reading of his adventures on Harris Mountain a few years back with the dearly departed Jeep I'm not so sure that would be a good idea either! ;):D

jake... you worry too much! if a 2wheel drive service van can make it up, you can too! :p:p

Haffy

05-28-2008, 05:55 PM

jake... you worry too much! if a 2wheel drive service van can make it up, you can too! :p:p

2wheel drive service van? I doubt it!!!. We went up over it in TRF's Toyota and that was quite the road. Heck your Jeep didn't make it.....:D They dismantled the firetower a week or two after we made it to the top.

Hiram357

05-28-2008, 06:59 PM

2wheel drive service van? I doubt it!!!. We went up over it in TRF's Toyota and that was quite the road. Heck your Jeep didn't make it.....:D They dismantled the firetower a week or two after we made it to the top.

not that one dingy, mt waldo :p

Haffy

05-28-2008, 08:52 PM

OOOPS!!! Yep you're right about the dingy part.....:confused:;):D

TRF

06-02-2008, 11:49 AM

2wheel drive service van? I doubt it!!!. We went up over it in TRF's Toyota and that was quite the road. Heck your Jeep didn't make it.....:D They dismantled the firetower a week or two after we made it to the top.

LOL,,,I drove to the top of Mt. Waldo twice too. Traction isn't the issue, clearance is.

Hiram357

06-02-2008, 02:50 PM

LOL,,,I drove to the top of Mt. Waldo twice too. Traction isn't the issue, clearance is.

that nice flat granite is fun stuff to drive on, I've driven up and down bald mt. over in lucerne quite a few times (heh, and a couple times with the boss's street stock truck, which didn't do too bad but plow rig on the front got in the way a few times...) :D

ya gotta watch out for the dips and the pan busters... :rolleyes:

(heh, luckily though, the biggest dip is usually behind the wheel...)

vicbiker

06-02-2008, 08:48 PM

(heh, luckily though, the biggest dip is usually behind the wheel...)
Couldn't have said it better....about you that is.